Would you rather die with $10,000,000 in the assets you can't take with you or die with $10,000,000 in debt that no one can ever collect from you?
I've lived a life of extremes
HIGH SIDE: flying business class 17 times to Hong Kong and Beijing for business, riding in limousines, flying in helicopters several times, owning a brand new Jaguar in 1986 at 23 years old, having $5,000 cash in my pocket all the time when I was in my early twenties, tons of hot escorts, eating and drinking at great restaurants, buying 5 houses in 1983 for rental properties, having a net worth of $8,000,000-$12,000,000 in 1999 during the dot com bubble, taking a 11 week vacation in 1987 to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia for a month, Barbados, Rio De Janiero 2 weeks, Cayman Islands, visiting 38 countries in my life
LOW SIDE: working for over 11 companies that didn't make it as startups or young businesses where I lost my job, selling all my belongings to have money for food and shelter in San Fran after a business collapse, sleeping in my for for 4 months, having a business I invested a lot of money and time into collapse after 5 years because a partner and his wife were secret crack and heroin addicts, losing my $25,000 deposit from a brand new home in Scottsdale's Pinnacle Canyon neighborhood because I took the money they gave me back and invested in Lucent on margin and it went to $6 from $45, working for 2 years for a startup at $20,000 a year in the DC area, having a crazy ex-girlfriend cost you $20,000 when you are just getting back in financial shape.
IT'S BEEN A CRAZY RIDE!!!
